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Happy Sunday! Here’s the latest and greatest from the world of bass – aka the top 10 reader favorites for the week. Thanks for reading, watching, commenting and sharing. 1. Talking Technique: Pedalling There are only so many hours in the day, so it’s always great to figure out ways to make the best use of your practice time. One...

Simon Fitzpatrick is back with another epic video. In this one, he pays tribute to the late great Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake & Palmer. Fitzpatrick tackles the melody from the band’s version of Aaron Copland’s “Hoedown” on his Sei Bass Flamboyant 6 bass.

Here’s a great clip of Richard Bona performing a live bass solo. So tasty. I love saxophonist Stefano di Battista’s reaction to his playing throughout.

Meet Lee Presgrave, a man who has a really important day job. But by night, he’s a self-described “aging rock star”. Lee is this week’s No Treble reader in the spotlight. Here’s his story… Bio: I started playing bass in 1985 when I bought a Yamaha BB300 from a local music store. I still have this bass and it’s been...

Tim Carey sent along his latest with vocalist Amanda Taylor. This time, the duo perform a cover of the Sara Bareilles tune, “Bottle It Up”. “I use kind of a hybrid slap style mixed with some two handed stuff for most of it, then some quick triplet picking stuff in the bridge,” he told us. “This one also features a...

Andreas D Fammé shared this video in response to us featuring Dirty Loops recently. The Feelgood Orchestra is a band from Norway who took what Andreas said was “the most streamed song in 2015 (“Lean On”), and made it their own. The tune was originally released by Major Lazer & DJ Snake (featuring MØ). Love the bass, the horns, and...

Happy Sunday. Time for your weekly dose of the best of the best from the world of bass. Here are the top 10 reader favorites on No Treble for the week of March 5-11, 2016. Thanks as always for reading, watching, commenting and sharing. 1. Dirty Loops: Over the Horizon It has been a while since we’ve seen a video...

Esperanza Spalding released her fifth album, Emily’s D+Evolution, earlier this month. Here’s the official video for “One” from the new album. Love that bass tone and the vocals – as always.

Mark Egan recently shared a clip of Eric Clapton, Marcus Miller, David Sanborn, Steve Gadd, and Joe Sample in a live performance in 1997. That got me digging, and I found this gem from the performance. Marcus is laying down some sweet lines on fretless and trading licks with Clapton, on the tune “Suggestions”.

It has been a while since we’ve seen a video by Dirty Loops. The wait is over. Here’s the band – anchored by bassist Henrik Linder – performing “Over the Horizon”. So glad to see them back, and in color.

Dave Swift shared this video on Facebook, and within seconds, it had my moving in my seat. I’m betting it’ll do the same for you. This is Edwin Starr on Jools Holland’s Annual Hootenanny performing “War”, featuring Swift on bass. “This is one of my personal favourite performances from ‘Later… with Jools Holland’,” Swift shared. “Sadly no longer with us....

Here’s pianist Shaun Martin and his band performing “The Yellow Jacket”, one of the tracks on his album, Seven Summers. Keith Taylor lays down the low end on this one. Great tune, great band, and a tasty bass solo on this one. If you dig it, the album is .